The most arresting images on Instagram are sometimes snapped close to home—literally. Manhattan’s new luxury residential project, the American Copper Buildings from JDS Development Group, offers eager smartphone photographers ample opportunity to capture moments of architectural splendor and jaw-dropping design. The copper-clad property’s unique, three-story skybridge, which connects the two towers and houses many of their shared amenities, is a light-filled sanctuary where residents can swim in a 75-foot lap pool suspended 300 feet off the ground. With tall, dramatic windows, a sumptuous interior, and expansive views of the East River, this sky-level perch between the two American Copper Buildings is as picturesque as they come.

While New York City is famous for its landmarks, shops, and parks, swimming pools are not among its signature attractions. But that’s changing, thanks to of one of the city’s most distinctive new luxury residential developments, the American Copper Buildings on Manhattan’s East River. The two curved towers are connected by a unique, amenity-packed skybridge. Residents can actually swim from one tower to the other across the 75-foot lap pool, which affords panoramic city views via huge glass walls.

JDS Development and SHoP Architects took inspiration from iconic Manhattan structures while striving to redefine the skyline with the American Copper Buildings. The use of russet-colored copper panels, which will develop a pale green patina with age, was inspired by the material used to create the Statue of Liberty. The copper-clad structure cuts a unique silhouette along the East River: the two 40-plus-story towers twist apart at an angle and are connected by a unique skybridge that houses a lap pool, hot tub, and lounge.

It used to be that nothing in Brooklyn exceeded the height of the Willamsburgh Savings Bank Tower, a famed historic clock just off Flatbush Avenue. But following a rezoning of downtown last decade, one developer surpassed that structure by 2 feet in 2009, and now the cap looks like it might blow off the roof.